We had our annual workshop in Vienna on in 22nd-24th February. The title was “2nd Workshop on Resilience Engineering for Energy and Urban Systems”.
The reason why we choose Vienna is because we had to give up sending Japanese students to Turkey in September, by circumstances. After the cancellation of outbound exchange, we tried to find a way to hold certain event in somewhere else.
Thankfully, some of our members had strong connection between international organization such as IAEA and CTBTO, we decided to held the workshop in Vienna and accompany selected students to it. MOFA also supported us.
Finally 24 members from Japan, 27 members from Turkey and associate member in Austria got together in this workshop.
The themes were related to Nuclear Engineering, Earthquake Engineering and protecting historical architectures from disaster. Those themes are all based on the “Resilience Engineering”, which is the main idea of our project.
Contents of the workshop was is as following.
- 22 February Technical tour 1 Visiting Historical Architectures in Vienna
- 23 February Morning Technical Tour 2 Guided tour in UN Building
- 23 February Afternoon: Lectures 1st session
- 24 February Morning: Lectures 2nd session
Besides faculty members, total 29 students form both Japan and Turkey side participated to this workshop. the lectures were so fruitful and participants seemed to satisfied to sharing their knowledge and experience.
We also discussed about the future student exchange. It was memorable that participants wishes to have any collaboration in Turkey in next time.
